Bonds’ mixed-media works, built from accumulated layers of fibrous material, operate somewhere between geology and the mystical. They are not paintings or sculpture in the conventional sense. They are strata of compressed histories. 

The work begins through obsession, creating a pressure chamber that becomes her studio. She researches, builds up, strips back, resurrects, and destroys. Her process is not a means to the work, rather it is the work's subject. Time, pressure, resistance and transformation are her materials as much as the paper she carves.

There is a controlled danger in her work. The push and pull of light and dark, of addition and subtraction, of lusciousness and grit are not formal decisions alone. They are the muses. Through her hands she becomes the conduit of these spirits. 

The result is a cultural artifact.

These pieces do not merely occupy a space but reshape its history, becoming part of an inheritance in a way that outlives trend, outlasts fashion, and deepens with time.

To acquire a work by Michele is a transfer of energy in sculptural form and a living document. 

Her work is held in private collections throughout the United States.